Fourth season of ‘Fargo’ a go with Chris Rock

By Hunter Ingram, More Content Now

Friday

Aug 3, 2018 at 6:22 PMAug 3, 2018 at 6:22 PM

LOS ANGELES -- “Fargo” is getting a new resident – and decade – in its fourth season.

Chris Rock will star in the recently ordered season of FX’s Emmy-winning anthology series, network president and CEO John Landgraf announced Friday at the Television Critics Association summer press tour.

Based on the plot description, it looks like the comedian will easy off the funny bone for the new season.

It will be set in the 1950's at the end of two great American migration — Southern Europeans from countries like Italy, who came to the US at the turn of the last century and settled in northern cities like New York, Chicago; and African Americans who left the south to escape Jim Crow and moved to those same cities. The clash of outsiders, all fighting for a piece of the American dream, serves as the backdrop of the season in Kansas City, Missouri, where two criminal syndicates have struck an uneasy peace — one Italian, one African American. Together they control an alternate economy — that of exploitation, graft and drugs.

Rock plays the head of one family, a man who, in order to prosper, has surrendered his oldest boy to his enemy, and who must in turn raise his son’s enemy as his own. It’s an uneasy peace, but profitable. But when the head of the Kansas City mafia goes into the hospital for routine surgery and dies, everything changes.

The Emmy, Golden Globe, Peabody and TCA Award-winning “Fargo” hails from creator Noah Hawley, and is based on the 1996 movie by Joel and Ethan Cohen, who serve as executive producers on the series.